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tangerine

How many syllables in tangerine?

  3 syllables

Divide tangerine into syllables:   tan-ge-rine
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What rhymes with tangerine

1 syllable
  • bean
  • clean
  • freen
  • gene
  • green
  • haen
  • jeanne
  • keen
  • lenes
  • mean
  • mien
  • peine
  • preen
  • scene
  • seen
  • skeen
  • Steen
  • wean
  • bein
  • dean
  • gean
  • glean
  • Greene
  • Jean
  • Kean
  • lean
  • lien
  • mein
  • nein
  • plein
  • Queen
  • screen
  • sheen
  • spleen
  • teen
2 syllables
  • agin
  • ameen
  • baleen
  • between
  • caffeine
  • careen
  • celine
  • christine
  • colleen
  • corinne
  • cuisine
  • doreen
  • eileen
  • Feldene
  • foreseen
  • Irene
  • jeanine
  • Kathleen
  • latrine
  • lean-to
  • limine
  • marine
  • Maureen
  • meine
  • moreen
  • nene
  • obscene
  • Pauline
  • Racine
  • reen
  • Sabine
  • sardine
  • serene
  • Sistine
  • skene
  • sunscreen
  • treen
  • unclean
  • vaccine
  • aileen
  • amin
  • benzene
  • bien
  • canteen
  • casein
  • charlene
  • citrine
  • convene
  • cortine
  • demean
  • eighteen
  • Eugene
  • fifteen
  • fourteen
  • janine
  • Joaquin
  • killeen
  • latrine's
  • lene
  • machine
  • martine
  • meindre
  • moline
  • mousseline
  • nineteen
  • onscreen
  • preteen
  • ravine
  • routine
  • saline
  • sardined
  • shaheen
  • sixteen
  • Slovene
  • thirteen
  • umpteen
  • unseen
3 syllables
4 syllables
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